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Volume XWIIU, Issue 12
Educating Women to Excel
AprU 4,2007
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INSIDE:
Book Review
p. 2
Where Have the Past Three Years Gone?
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Editorial Page,
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By; Sarah Beck
Conttibuting Writer
As my junior year is
winding down, suddenly
my senior year and the
real world are in sight,
yikes! What started as my
fun, carefree, college days
sean to be non-existent
as of late. My child-like
summers of vacationing
at the beach and baby
sitting here or thae are
nowhere to be found.
Suddenly my mind and
summer is clouded with
more grown up decisions,
such as finding a place to
live for next year, inter
viewing for internships,
building my resume, hav
ing enough hours to grad
uate, hoping for a good
job upon graduation, and
the list goes on. I feel like
I am being thrown into
adulthood just a bit too
early! I know I still have
a year of college left and
am by no means say
ing that junior or senior
years are no fun, but just
that I feel myself getting
upset that the end is in
sight. WhCTe in the world
have my freshman and
sophomore years gcme?
It feels like just yester
day tiiat I was sitting in
biology lab meeting my
now best friend for ttie
first time, or staying up
all night in the dorm wi^
my friends, or going to
my first Mereditii formal.
It all seems like just yes
terday and already I am
starting to miss my first
two years of college.
As I walked onto
Meredith's campus for the
first time as a freshman,
I remember exactly how
excited I was to finally be
in college. I tfiought the
next four years would go
by so slow, but the oppo
site seems to have hap
pened. I remember drink
ing that even junior year
was so far away. Time
somehow has crept up on
me. Sometimes I fed as
if I went to bed a sopho
more and woke up in ttie
middle of my junior year.
My roommates and I have
recentiy been thinking a
lot about the future and
have had to make more
adult decisions involv
ing school, internships,
jobs, living arrangonents,
and graduation. During
all of our stressful deci
sions, we have become
extremely saddened and
amazed at how fast our
college years have gone
by. During the past three
years, I have laughed and
cried my way to becom
ing the woman I hope to
be all while making the
best friends any girl could
ask for.
The point of my article
is not to burden you all
with my sudden mid-col-
lege-life crisis, but it is
to tell you, imder class
men, how important it is
to cherish each and every
moment of your college
careers, even the bad ones,
because before you know
it you will be registering
for your senior year won
dering where on earth the
time has gone. It is not
to say I am not excited
about my future or what
the world has to offer me,
but I am saddened tiiat
one of tiie most precious
chapters of my life will
be coming to a close a lot
faster than I had imag
ined.
Be sure to laug^ every day,
stay up all hours of the
ni^t talking with your
friends, take those naps
after class, sleep all day
on Saturday, fulfill your
late night cravings for
Cookout, tdl your friends
how much they mean to
you, schedule late classes
so you can sleep in, pull
all-nighters, and cheri^
every bit of college life
because before we know
it we will ail walk across
tiiat amphitheatre grass
to receive our diplomas.
The fun and unique col
lege lifestyle tiiat we have
become so accustomed to
living will no longer be
our lives. Instead we will
be separated from the
dear friends that we have
seen every single day
for the past four years.
College has certainly been
tiie best experience for me
thus far and unfortunate
ly, as tiie saying goes, all
good things must come to
an end.
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"...1 am saddened that
one of the most pre
cious chapters of my
life will be coming to a
close a lot faster than I
had imagined."
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